About
German lighting designer Tanja Rühl made her Royal Ballet debut in 2017 lighting William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude.
Rühl began her theatrical engineering apprenticeship in 1999 at Frankfurt Opera House. After completion of the apprenticeship with distinction, she joined Ballett Frankfurt under the artistic direction of Forsythe in 2002 as assistant to the lighting supervisor. She was appointed lighting supervisor with the newly founded Forsythe Company in 2005. In 2006 she completed her master of theatrical engineering majoring in lighting. Since 2007 she has been the company’s lighting designer, and from 2014 she has worked as a freelance lighting designer, collaborating with choreographers, companies and artists around the globe.
As a member of the Forsythe Productions team Rühl acts as technical and design consultant with ballet and dance companies for Forsythe licence works.